Category: Assignment

Oct. 15, 2015 Meeting materials here It was Thelma Byers-Bailey who offered the CMS Policy Committee a headline metaphor that probably rings true for parents at a number of schools across CMS. Under one school roof are two groups of students. One group sought out seats in the partial magnet housed at the school. The Read More …

Oct. 7, 2015 Lawyers Luke Largess, James E. Ferguson II and UNCC researcher Amy Hawn Nelson addressed the past and future of student assignment in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools at Covenant Presbyterian Church. The presentations were part of the church’s “Educate a Child, Transform the World” series. The three presentations are in six videos below.

Sept. 10, 2015 Agenda here With seven of the nine members of the Board of Education present at one point or another, the board’s Policy Committee continued its slo-mo romp through the existing guiding principles for student assignment. Board members used a worksheet that put the existing language into little boxes. The effect was to Read More …

Aug. 13, 2015 Meeting materials With eight Board of Education members either in the room or participating via phone, the CMS Policy Committee Thusday wrestled again with their own aggressive timeline and the underlying splits in community values over student assignment. Satisfy the people who want diverse schools for their children to attend? Satisfy the Read More …

Aug. 8, 2015 Back in April, the members of the CMS Policy Committee began looking at student assignment. And one of their first questions was: Help us understand the differences between Wake and Mecklenburg Counties. That’s a tall order, and a broad one too. It involves differences in local histories, industries, average income, demographic differences, Read More …

July 28, 2015 Below is the portion of the July 28 CMS school board meeting that deals with a presentation on an initial report on visits by officials of the National Institute for Magnet School Leadership this spring. The PDF of the initial report is here. A fuller report is due in September. The intial Read More …

July 26, 2015 The July 9 Policy Committee meeting was held without a desk separating board members and staff. But there was a great deal of distance separating them – not all of which was accounted for by the speakerphone linking three board members and the superintendent into the room. Video was made of the Read More …

June 23, 2015 Most issues going before a public meeting of the Board of Education are put on paper and arrive in board members’ hands or inboxes several days before the meeting. Tuesday’s discussion of student assignment began just minutes after papers to guide the discussion had been thrust under their noses. And the papers Read More …